Ashley Johnson (they/them) is an experienced circle keeper and transformative justice activist who specializes in helping organizations, schools, and communities embrace values that are central to healing from complex trauma. With over 10 years of experience serving diverse communities (including people aged 14-24, people who have been formerly detained and incarcerated, gang-involved, homeless, and people compounded trauma) Ashley has honed the necessary skills to connect to nearly any audience. In facilitation, she seeks to transform education in terms that empower students, teachers, and communities. She has been trained extensively in the lineage of Kay Pranis and Chief Justice Robert Yazzie of the Navajo Nation in restorative justice and circles. Some of her organizing work has included creating and activating healing spaces, direct violent interruption, and facilitating difficult community dialogues with the use of circle practices. All her work, writing, and research seeks to establish creative alternative interventions for communities rooted in rich ancestral practices.